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Life lived equals life left in stationary populations

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  • Joshua R. Goldstein

    (University of California, Berkeley)

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The average age of the individuals in a population is equal to the average remaining life expectancy when the population is stationary.

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  • Joshua R. Goldstein, 2009. "Life lived equals life left in stationary populations," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 20(2), pages 3-6.
    • Handle: RePEc:dem:demres:v:20:y:2009:i:2
    DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.2
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    1. Tim Miller, 2001. "Increasing longevity and medicare expenditures," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 38(2), pages 215-226, May.
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    1. Tomasz Wrycza & Annette Baudisch, 2012. "How life expectancy varies with perturbations in age-specific mortality," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 27(13), pages 365-376.
    2. Tomasz Wrycza, 2014. "Entropy of the Gompertz-Makeham mortality model," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 30(49), pages 1397-1404.
    3. Tomasz Wrycza, 2014. "Variance in age at death equals average squared remaining life expectancy at death," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 30(50), pages 1405-1412.
    4. Francisco Villavicencio & Tim Riffe, 2016. "Symmetries between life lived and left in finite stationary populations," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 35(14), pages 381-398.
    5. Tim Riffe, 2015. "The force of mortality by life lived is the force of increment by life left in stationary populations," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 32(29), pages 827-834.
    6. Maxim Finkelstein & James W. Vaupel, 2009. "Survival as a Function of Life Expectancy," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 21(29), pages 879-884.
    7. James W. Vaupel, 2009. "Life lived and left: Carey’s equality," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 20(3), pages 7-10.
    8. James W. Vaupel & Francisco Villavicencio, 2018. "Life lived and left: Estimating age-specific survival in stable populations with unknown ages," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 39(37), pages 991-1008.
    9. Joshua R. Goldstein, 2012. "Historical Addendum to "Life lived equals life left in stationary populations"," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 26(7), pages 167-172.

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